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Some experts have urged people to think beyond both disease-oriented and well-being–oriented definitions of health, and also consider health as it relates to communities.

health. As an example, they noted a study of the severe health problems experienced by people living in the middle of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In the occupied territories, the “dimensions of suffering, especially at the community level , are measurable and often severe. Science has not eradicated suffering, despite its enormous power to deliver technologies to improve health” (emphasis added).

What Is Health, Anyway?

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